1. HWH UNIT 7 CHAPTER 11.1-11.2

3. Constitutional Monarchy House of Lords Appointed Veto power over the House of Commons House of Commons Elected Less than 5% of the population could vote Wealthy land-owners Only Anglicans could vote Representation in Parliament Skewed toward the countryside New cities were not represented “Rotten Boroughs” Early Reforms 1820s: Catholics and non-Anglican Protestants get the right to vote

4. Expanded the vote by nearly 50% Still only property- owning men Gave more representation to cities Parliament ’ s attempt to curb revolutionary ideas

5. The “ People ’ s Charter ” Universal suffrage Annual calling of Parliament The Secret Ballot Salaries for MPs Abolition of property qualification for MPs Presented three times to Parliament (and rejected) Too radical Britain moved slowly toward reform

7. Liberal Party Middle Class William Gladstone Anti-empire Pro-Home Rule Conservative Party Aristocratic Benjamin Disraeli Pro-empire

8. Reform Bill of 1867 (urban workers) Conservatives Secret Ballot, 1872 Reform Bill of 1884 (rural farmers) Liberals Parliament Act of 1911 Eliminated power of House of Lords Salaries for MPs, 1911

10. Maintained high prices of grain ( “ corn ” ) Parliament represented only the upper and middle class The Corn Laws disproportionately hurt the poor Increased the price of bread…

11. The Anti-Corn Law League, 1845 Real reason: the Potato Famine

12. Outlawed women and children under 10 years old working in mines

13. Limited the work day to ten hours

14. Unions legalized, 1825 Strikes legalized, 1870s Revisionist Socialism in Britain The Fabian Society (England, 1884) The Labour Party (England, 1906)

16. Emmeline Pankhurst

17. English Control, 12 th century Catholic vs. Protestant Catholics had to pay tithes to the Church of England English and Scottish absentee landlords Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801) The Irish Potato Famine (1845-49)

18. 1886: Defeated 1893: Defeated 1914: Passed Ulster World War I 1916: Easter Rebellion 1922: Irish Free State